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ENRIQUE FLOREZ (1701-1773)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 539 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENRIQUE

FLOREZ (1701-1773)  ,
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Spanish historian, was born at
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Valladolid on the 14th of
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February 1701 . In his fifteenth
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year he entered the order of St Augustine, was afterwards professor of
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theology at the university of Alcala, and published a Cursus theologiue in five volumes (1732-1738) . He afterwards devoted himself to
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historical studies . Of these the first-fruit was his Clave Historial, a
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work of the same class as the French
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Art de verifier
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les
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dates, and preceding it by several years . It appeared in 1743, and passed through many
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editions . In 1747 was published the first
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volume of EspanaSagrada, teatrogeografecohistorico de la Iglesia de Espana, a vast compilation of Spanish ecclesiastical
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history which obtained a
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European reputation, and of which twenty-nine volumes appeared in the author's lifetime . It was continued after his
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death by Manuel Risco and others, and further additions have been made at the expense of the Spanish government . The whole work in fifty-one volumes was published at
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Madrid (1747-1886) . Its value is considerably increased by the insertion of ancient chronicles and documents not easily accessible elsewhere . Florez was a good numismatist, and published Medallas de
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las Colonias in 2 vols . (1757-1758), of which a third volume appeared in 1773 . His last work was the Memorias de las reynas Catolicas, 2 vols .

(x770) . Florez led a retired, studious and unambitious

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life, and died at Madrid on the loth of August 1773 . See F . Mendez, Noticia de la vida y escritos de Henrique Florez (Madrid, 178o) .

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